wstr75
01-10-2018, 09:19 AM
The purpose of this post is help my fellow BMW owners should they encounter the same frustrating issue I experienced last night. Our garage door opener bit the dust recently and we had a new Liftmaster Model 8587 installed. https://www.liftmaster.com/for-homes/garage-door-openers/elite-series/model-8587w
We all know the routine for reprogramming a rolling code Homelink garage door opener to a new car. Homelink programming went well with our two daily drivers (Lexus and Acura) built in 2013 and 2016. After about 60 minutes of intense clearing, setting and re-setting following various instructions found on the Internet eventually convinced me my 2004 BMW would not link to my new garage door opener. I finally came across one well hidden forum discussion where the term "Homelink compatibility bridge" and older car issue was discussed. Yep, this was the explanation for why my BMW's Homelink transmitter acted as if nothing was happening during the usual programming steps.
It turns out our older vehicle Homelink systems do not have the ability to interface directly with new Homelink Security 2.0 garage door openers. The link below gives a description of this technology.
https://www.liftmaster.com/liftmaster-security-2-0-garage-door-openers-homeli
The answer is a "compatibility bridge" for interfacing between an older protocol Homelink vehicle and a newer Homelink Security 2.0 protocol garage door opener.
https://www.chamberlain.com/homelink/compatibility-bridge
This was ordered last night: https://www.liftmaster.com/catalogresourcesv3/en-us/shared/files/tucmanuals/sbgdo201120.pdf . Will report how it works when it arrives.
We all know the routine for reprogramming a rolling code Homelink garage door opener to a new car. Homelink programming went well with our two daily drivers (Lexus and Acura) built in 2013 and 2016. After about 60 minutes of intense clearing, setting and re-setting following various instructions found on the Internet eventually convinced me my 2004 BMW would not link to my new garage door opener. I finally came across one well hidden forum discussion where the term "Homelink compatibility bridge" and older car issue was discussed. Yep, this was the explanation for why my BMW's Homelink transmitter acted as if nothing was happening during the usual programming steps.
It turns out our older vehicle Homelink systems do not have the ability to interface directly with new Homelink Security 2.0 garage door openers. The link below gives a description of this technology.
https://www.liftmaster.com/liftmaster-security-2-0-garage-door-openers-homeli
The answer is a "compatibility bridge" for interfacing between an older protocol Homelink vehicle and a newer Homelink Security 2.0 protocol garage door opener.
https://www.chamberlain.com/homelink/compatibility-bridge
This was ordered last night: https://www.liftmaster.com/catalogresourcesv3/en-us/shared/files/tucmanuals/sbgdo201120.pdf . Will report how it works when it arrives.